19 May - Andy's Field Trip to Dole Plantation

James Dole arrived in Honolulu in 1899 and began to grow pineapples on a 60 acre homestead in Oahu's central plain. At one point his farming and cannery business produced 75% of the world's pineapple crop and made the fruit as popular as it is today.

Nowadays the downtown Honolulu cannery is a shopping mall and the plantation in central Oahu still produces pineapple while doubling as a museum/tourist attraction.

Most pineapple we see in the commissary says "Produced in Mexico". Don't know the economics on that one, but the plantation makes a nice spot for a school field trip.